Alice in WaterdeepFirst 5 star read of the year, and a 5+ too!
Note to self: you might want to review your self imposed rule to draw book covers. And I thought Project Hail Mary was a hard one đ
Andrea CallegaroBeen reading quite a bit of #readerresponsetheory / RAA literature recently. One core idea is that reading is an active process: readers construct meaning (plot, characters, themes, etc) through an interaction between the text and their own personal "encyclopedia" of experiences, knowledge, emotions, associations, etc
Made me curious about other people's reading habits.
Do you take notes while #reading? Highlight? Keep a #readingjournal or commonplace book? Write down reactions, interpretations, questions? Or do you prefer to let the reading experience stay more fluid and intuitive?
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JulĂ© CunninghamâHe told me there were truth tellers, and they needed to know what the truth was, so as to tell it. And there were liars, and they needed to know what the truth was, so they could change it or avoid it. And there were bullshitters, who didnât care about the truth at all.â -- from 'The Secret Commonwealth' by Philip Pullman
'Do you believe that all the world was created for men, even the stars in the sky? Might it not be that all the world was made for all the world? Or men for the stars? Or the stars for the trees and the trees for the stones?' -- from 'We Are Green and Trembling' by Gabriela CabezĂłn CĂĄmara, trans. Robin Myers
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'Dad had said ânoâ to the system and broken what was unthinkable to break: the habit of accepting lies and lying, even to yourself, for the sake of survival. The effects of movchanka, the Great Hush, were so much deeper than I imagined. There hadnât only been The Unsayable, there had also been The Unthinkable.' -- from 'Strong Roots' by Olia Hercules
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âNever has it occurred to you that there are people poised with erasers to erase you, people prepared to stab your flesh with their knives, people ready to trample youâŠWhy? For the simple reason that you are a little more visible than they, taller by a centimeter. Most people cannot bear that. You have no children, youâre not an invalid, you arenât sufficiently ugly, you arenât married, youâre a woman, youâve ventured out into the world, you âsingâ, youâre accountable to no oneâall this is an excess of freedom, something that is not so easily forgiven.â -- from 'Fox' by Dubravka Ugresic, trans. Ellen Elias-BursaÄ, David Williams
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Ariane - Chaos und ComicsReading Journal Teil 2 â Was ich gelesen und ergĂ€nzt habe âšđ
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Reading Journal Teil 2 â Was ich gelesen und ergĂ€nzt habe âšđ
'To live wonder-smitten with reality is the gladdest way to live. But with our creaturely capacity for wonder comes a responsibility to itâthe recognition what reality is not a singularity but a plane. Each time we presume to have seen the whole, the plane tilts ever so slightly to reveal new vistas of truth and new horizons of mystery, staggering us with the sudden sense that we had been looking at only a fragment, framed by our parochial point of view.' -- from 'The Universe in Verse' by Maria Popova
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And so I celebrate the end of the winter festivals because it promises not just the light returning but also that the darkness will come back to be illuminated by words. -- from 'Winter' by Val McDermid
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#FridayReads include my current book, Fox by Dubravka Ugresic, an absolute treat for a reader. Underlying its various themes it's about stories and how they come into being. My current poetry read is the collected poems of the Chinese medieval poet Li Qingzhao, The Magpie at Night, which is a new translation of her work by Wendy Chen.
Lined up next are Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a retelling of the Aeneid in Lavinia's voice, a voice that wasn't heard in Virgil's work, and Strong Roots, a memoir of family, Ukraine and food by chef Olia Hercules.